Dave Keeton wrote: >We must be thinking the same......Scary thing is was I went looking through >the motenc_io file. I figured that it was'nt finding what it was looking >for, I copied the files over and renamed them. After getting errors here and >there I finally got it working. The difference is you know what your doing >and I don't. I'm just guessing at this point! I am already an avid ladder >programmer so if I learn how to configure the I/O points, timers and what >not in CL then I should be on my way.....can push buttons be tied to tkemc >through Classic ladder? I am going to need an operator panel with an MPG >(manual pulse generator) or handwheel and pushbuttons. > > Thank you for your help..... > > Dave > > Oh - in my usual form, I helped with the specific problem and forgot about the bigger picture :)
As far as I know, you can't hook external buttons to TkEMC (or mini, or AXIS ...). However, there is another user interface you can run at the same time as any of those - halui. That's how you hook up external buttons and lights and get things done with them. There is one exception though - jogging with an MPG needs the MPG to be read in realtime, so you would load a software encoder counter (or use a spare on the Motenc, if you have one), and connect that directly to the motion controller. There are individual jog-enable input bits to select the axis to jog, and the MPG gets hooked to all of the axes. Take a look at the jogwheel.hal file in the max config for more info on jogwheels. For more info on halui, look at the various files in the halui_halvcp config. There's also information on the wiki on both of these subjects (search for halui or jog wheel). - Steve ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
